Maze, sorghum, milo etc? Isn't it corn?

buickanddeere · Aug 29, 2008

Maze, sorghum, milo etc? Isn't it corn,something similar or something else?
We hear about the stuff up here but only plant 80-120 day "corn".

Ole Shovel · Aug 29, 2008

The word corn has a different meaning in different areas and different countries. In Europe or Britain it could mean any grain. Grain sorghum, milo, maize are the same but different from corn here. Grain sorghum is not the same crop at all but grown in the same season as corn for grain for cattle feed, starch production, and other varieties or crosses of it for silage, forage, hay or syrup. We grow a sudan/sorghum cross for grazing and hay and it could also have a cane cross in it too. Red top cane and hegari are types of grain sorghum.
Grain Sorghum Handbook

Doug in Illinois · Aug 30, 2008

I wonder if he is lucky enough not to have shattercane in his corn, also part of the sorghum family. Our farm back in Nebraska is sometimes forced to corn, as the same chemicals to kill shattercane also kill milo. Milo is a lot more drought tolerant than corn. But, I think I am preaching to the choir telling you this. DOUG

thurlow · Aug 30, 2008

From google images.........

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Bill(Wis) · Aug 30, 2008

Hey Thurlow! That bottom picture looks like soybeans.

IaGary · Aug 30, 2008

Corn and maze are the same I believe.

Milo and grain sorghum are the same grain but not the same as corn.

Milo or grain sorghum do better in hot dry weather than corn does. So for that reason it is grown in the SW Midwest. Corn is grown farther north.

Here in Iowa we grow a little of all grains but corn and beans are the king.

We grow 105 to 125 day corn here. Beans grown are group 2.5 thru 3.5 maturity.

Gary

thurlow · Aug 30, 2008

Hey Bill, I agree that it does; we grew milo back in the '70s and 80s. Most of the seed was red, but one variety did look very similar to that pictured. Probably should have looked for pictures that looked more 'traditional'.

Sam#3 · Aug 30, 2008

The heads look like milo with red grain. There was a product called sargo(sp.) grown around here way back when that had white grain. I also think sorgum cane had a white grain. All small as a bb but very heavy, sixty pounds to the bushel as I recall.

Ole Shovel · Aug 30, 2008

Corn grows on a ear = maze. Milo, maize, grain, sorghum, hegari, red top cane, pearl millet is small near round grain grows in head on top of plant. Here the head usually emerges in August if it"s going to make it before a killing freeze. Nothing wrong with that cream colored milo Thurlow had pic of. We use to grow some of it too and it always beat the red milo in yield and test weight. The cream milos will thresh better with little or no hull left on the grain like red milo so makes excellent feed grain. Don"t forget pearl millet it"s a type of grain sorghum not a corn. Some more explanations of the sorghum forages in link.
Sorghum Forages

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